Non-Equilibrium Dissipative-Flow Atomic Layer Deposition Catalytic Conversion

PROBLEM: A conformal ALD oxide on a biosorbent support can host catalytic sites, but pollutant or CO2 conversion under flow is a dissipative process where intermediates and site occupancy evolve continuously. A catalyst characterised only at equilibrium may mislead designers about which layer thickness or site density sustains conversion in practice.

SOLUTION: IBM Cloud Ideas would host a proposal capability for dissipative ALD catalytic stacks, capturing deposition recipe, DFT-predicted active groups, flow-state test conditions, and regeneration accounting in a single reviewable submission. Reviewers could check that conversion evidence comes from flow-state measurements, not equilibrium inference alone.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — Non-equilibrium thermodynamics / dissipative structures, Source: Prigogine, Nobel Prize 1977. Kohn–Sham DFT (1965) predicts surface-group binding; biosorption isotherms (Langmuir/Freundlich) and qe = (C0 − Ce)V/m are textbook DOCUMENTED. ALD deposits angstrom-precise conformal oxide layers.